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Sweden: Gay teen faces certain death as authorities plan to deport him back to Iran

Feb 19, 2019 2:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

“Mehdi Shokr Khoda is a gay Christian 19-year-old Iranian refugee seeking political asylum in Sweden. Sweden grants asylum for LGBTQ people escaping queer-phobic regimes, but Sweden’s Migration Board has previously said that it thinks Khoda is lying about his situation.”

Sweden is perhaps the most welcoming nation on earth for refugees, especially unvetted Muslim migrants, but not quite so much for legitimate cases involving the persecution of gays and/or Christians. Sweden’s Migration Board rejected Mehdi Shokr Khoda’s application two years ago, “stating that he had neither clearly explained his coming out process nor provided sufficient proof of his gay and Christian identities.”

Sweden becomes strict on asylum applicants once Christianity enters the equation, as we saw in 2017 in the case of a Christian convert, actress Aideen Strandsson, who stated that she was told by Swedish authorities that “it’s not our problem if you decided to become a Christian.” Strandsson also faced death in Iran for apostasy; Hungary eventually offered her asylum. “Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén released a statement on Hungary’s official government website saying: ‘Right from the beginning, we have differentiated between economic migrants and genuine asylum-seekers.'” Sweden has not made such a distinction, and is now in chaos because of it. Semjen also said that “Christians would have a much easier time integrating into Hungarian society than Muslim migrants,” a fact that has been proven across Europe.

“This gay teen faces certain death if the government deports him back to Iran,” by Daniel Villarreal, LGBTQ Nation, February 17, 2019:

Mehdi Shokr Khoda is a gay Christian 19-year-old Iranian refugee seeking political asylum in Sweden. Sweden grants asylum for LGBTQ people escaping queer-phobic regimes, but Sweden’s Migration Board has previously said that it thinks Khoda is lying about his situation.

In two weeks, the Swedish government will decide whether or not to deport him back to Iran where he could face violence and execution for his religious affiliation and sexual orientation.

Two years ago, Khoda’s transgender sister fled to Sweden and was granted asylum. However, when Khoda himself applied, the Migration Board rejected his application stating that he had neither clearly explained his coming out process nor provided sufficient proof of his gay and Christian identities.

For example, Khoda only received an official Baptism after he moved to Sweden. Khoda claims this is because such rituals are dangerous in the Muslim-majority homeland and punishable there by death.

Khoda is currently dating a Swedish resident named Carlo Rapisarda. The two live together. But in order to marry, Khoda needs a resident card which isn’t being granted to him by the Swedish government

Khoda is currently raising money to help his case. On the couple’s GoFundMe page …..

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 2:21 pm

    The tile of this message is well put if it would be “homosexuals in Iran” and not “Homosexuals who live in Iran.” For many of them are six feet under in Iran as in dead and buried. As exposed in a book by a former Muslims .Which reveals that “Estimates by human rights activists and opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran of the number of gay men and lesbian s executed for crimes related to their sexual orientation since 1979 vary between several hundred to as many as six thousand. According to the Boroumand Foundation, records exist for at least 107 executions with charges related to homosexuality between 1979 and 1990 . Iran is one of the eight countries in the world when homosexual acts are punishable by death; all are Islamic. According to a 2013 report from the IHRDC:” [1]

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq, page 340.

    • J D.S says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 9:39 am

      Gay Christian?????

      • Kepha says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 12:36 pm

        I’d believe it if I knew he was struggling against something the Bible clearly calls sin. I know I have my own struggles with a bad temper and intemperate language; but I would never ask the church to accommodate these sins.

        • Timmy Seventy-Five (@TimmySeventy) says

          Feb 21, 2019 at 1:20 am

          Well then we’ll just give you an extra star in your Sunday school book. Virtue signal much?

  2. Bill says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 2:47 pm

    Let the Swedish gay community rally on this one, or the Swedish Christian community. Do you think that Jorge Mario Bergoglio will take note?

    The Swedes will be happy to send him back as an apostate, just one less annoying Christian for the Swedish government to have to silence on its own. This stuff is deadly real and the consequences for this man will be horrible, but the people that should care the most are Swedish citizens and they are too busy submitting to Islam to care about him. Doubtless, many believe he deserves it.

  3. eduardo odraude says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 3:09 pm

    Kind of a Catch 22 — even if he’s not gay, being sent back to Iran for claiming to be gay and an apostate could get him killed. To survive, he’d have to convince the Iranians that he was just scamming so he could spread Shiite Islam into Sweden.

    • Barbara says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 10:01 pm

      The government refuses to send terrorists, rapists, murders back to their country of origin. BUT a gay, christian to face a death sentence. gets sent back.

  4. Ole Pederson says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    Why why why ?
    Similar to some of the Christian refugees (!) who are widely reported in the media to be deported from Germany back to their Islamic hell hole countries. They almost never send the Muslims back.

  5. RonaldB says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 4:58 pm

    I wouldn’t be totally thrilled to have my country give refuge to anyone in danger.

    The fact is, given the Muslim proclivities for killing anyone slightly different from their own sect, including Sunni killing Shi’ite and Shi’ite killing Sunni, there will always be a flow of Muslim refugees accurately reporting they are in fear of death in their Muslim country.

    So, in my opinion, any country ought to formulate policies strictly aligned with the interest of the country itself. Is it beneficial to offer refuge to any Muslim in danger? No. Is it beneficial to offer refuge to a highly-educated and skilled Christian actress? Probably. Is it beneficial to offer refuge to an Iranian who comes to Sweden, convert publicly to Christianity, announces he’s gay, and then requests asylum?

    How do you tell the difference between a gay who comes to Sweden for the great ambiance and converts to Christianity as icing on the cake? From a gay who is driven by the Christian faith? And, my understanding of fundamentalist Christianity is that it teaches that gay behavior is a sin. How does the gay Christian handle that? Or, does he get to pick and choose his Christian teachings?

    Whatever you decide is in the interests of your country, the very worst action is to formulate policy on the fly, and deport people who have made themselves vulnerable in an attempt to boost their qualifications. If gay Christians know their asylum applications will be rejected before they know the process, they’ll at least know enough to keep their heads down in Iran.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 5:26 pm

      There are lots of gay Christians–it is up to the conscience of the individual how to handle these contradictions, if they feel such exist.

      In any case, Christians–even those who believe homosexuality is wrong–will not be harming him.

    • R Russell says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 5:35 pm

      RonaldB
      It seems to me that some people concentrate on the sin and not the person.
      I don’t know this young man’s background. I do know Jesus can change people – not necessarily in the order we would choose for him.
      Because Christianity is a relationship between the individual and Jesus, and not a relationship with rules in a Book, It is the love which brings someone to want to submit to what Jesus wants. We all mature at different rates.
      1Corinthians 6
      “…. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God….”
      From this we know the love of God changes us – for ‘Such were some of you….’

    • Indiana Tom says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 6:09 pm

      How do you tell the difference between a gay who comes to Sweden for the great ambiance and converts to Christianity as icing on the cake? From a gay who is driven by the Christian faith? And, my understanding of fundamentalist Christianity is that it teaches that gay behavior is a sin. How does the gay Christian handle that? Or, does he get to pick and choose his Christian teachings?
      This asylum mess can really be a he said, she said, we said thing. Sweden lets in a lot more dangerous people than this guy. He should have said he was an ISIS fighter returning from Jihad.

    • RonaldB says

      Feb 19, 2019 at 10:01 pm

      I don’t know or care if his conversion is sincere. I was making the point that if being gay and Christian is a path to refugee status in a country, you’re going to see masses of gay Christians applying for asylum. So, I’m going to my base position that refugees should not be admitted on the basis of how much they need to be admitted, but how beneficial they will be to the host country.

      For sure, the first few applicants for refuge on such a basis will be attractive and probably sincere. Once the principle is established, you’ll get masses of wanna-be’s applying for refuge as gay Christians.

      • Garfield says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 12:48 am

        Ok but he looks kinda gay just saying. Nothing wrong with that so why can’t we say so? Anyway-
        If he is gay Sweden is very wrong to send him back to Iran.
        But Sweden seems to have gone insane. They protect and welcome hate filled rapists and reject Christians.
        Why does globalist brainwashing work????

  6. Wellington says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 5:04 pm

    Upside-down world. Sweden is pioneering the way. Of all the Western European nations that are in the process of committing national suicide because of the refusal to see Islam for the iniquity that it is, I believe Sweden is the worst. I could be wrong but right now I pick Sweden as the “winner” here. Sadly, of course, there are other major “contenders” out there.

    Hang your head in shame, Sweden, for you are a disgrace of the first order. Are there not enough real men and women left in Sweden who will do all that is necessary to save their country? Where the hell is the Swedish military in all this? Or is too riddled with stupidity, double standards, multiculturalism and political correctness? Man up, Sweden, because you are running out of time.

  7. gravenimage says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 5:17 pm

    Sweden: Gay teen faces certain death as authorities plan to deport him back to Iran
    ……………….

    This is appalling! How can Sweden do this, especially give the fact that they let in hordes of Muslims who rape and wage violent Jihad there?

    • Garfield says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 12:52 am

      Swedes are self effacing pacifists. They are in denial and also fascinated by the Other…anything “exotic” they see as good because it contrasts to their pasty inhibited boringness….They see swarthy violent freaks as earthy dynamic expressive sexy…..that’s my theory. My dad lives there and I can’t get him to admit there’s a problem.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 20, 2019 at 4:00 pm

        Sorry about your dad, Garfield. A lot of Swedes are in complete denial.

  8. Paul J says

    Feb 19, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    So the Swedes question his sexuality but blindly accept obviously grown muslim men saying they are children.

  9. No Muzzies Here says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 1:12 pm

    The key to this is ” gay Christian.” That is the reason for the death sentence. Sweden has willingly prostrated itself before its new Muslim overlords.

  10. Thoughtful says

    Feb 20, 2019 at 3:53 pm

    There are loads of fake asylum seekers from Muslim countries who claim to be Gay when they are not. For the Shia there have to be four male witnesses who are devout Muslims to see the act inflagrante Delicto, begging the question what four devout Muslim men were doing watching in the first place.

    Although the offence is still on the Iranian statute book there hasn’t been an execution for years, and as for Christians being hassled, Iran has decided to bring Christmas celebrations to their countries for the Christians there – hardly a hostile act.

    Compare this to Saudi which bribes Western politicians to do their bidding, Islamise their countries, and turn a blind eye when necessary, where teenages are hanged in public on the mere suspicion of them being gay, and Christianity is banned outright punishable also by death.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 20, 2019 at 4:08 pm

      What a load of claptrap. Any Muslim from Dar-al-Islam is taking their lives in their hands by admitting they are Gay.

      And no–Iran is not the paradise for Gays and Christians that this creep pretends. The claim that Iran is not still murdering Gays is quite false.

      And Saudi Arabia being an Islamic hell hole doesn’t mean that Iran is not, as well.

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